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[e-Book] The Ultimate Guide to Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Logistics, Transportation, & Freight Metrics & KPIs

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Furthermore, some data may be of minimal use without comparison to and identification of trends and collaborations between data from other transactions within a given warehouse or transportation system. Businesses are often left with questions about the origination of such data.

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Losing the LTL battle? Use Big Data to Even the Playing Field

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If you’re one of the other 29 clubs on the outside looking in, you start with data. And what if you’re not a professional baseball team, but a shipper looking to reduce your freight spend and still grow your business? With the right data, anything is possible. Feeling overwhelmed? Still not sure how to start? 1] Reiter, Ben.

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Top 15 Logistics Blog Posts of 2014

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To that end, every warehouse manager’s role is to manage the physical environment, loadshifting equipment and people, to decrease the chances of collision and accidents, and often, to help the flow of freight via outbound and inbound freight management; an entire process known as warehouse traffic management. Read the full Post.

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Understanding How Parcel Cost Control Reduces Total Transportation Costs

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As a result, average shipment size has dwindled, driving increases in parcel freight spend. While freight consolidation is commonly applied to the process of combining LTL shipments to create full truckload shipments, parcel hundredweight programs use the same tactic, applied to multiple parcels.

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The Top 10 Supply Chain Blog Posts from 2017

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Today, is day two of our annual year-end series highlighting the top blog posts in each of our 5 main categories: Manufacturing , Supply Chain , Logistics , Transportation Management , Freight. Download: The Impact of Big Data in the Supply Chain & Transportation Management Industry Webinar Replay, Transcript & Presentation.

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How Advancing Technology in Transportation Management Highlight the Growing Trucking Driver Shortage

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Big Data Became Essential to Transportation Management. Big data analysis and the transportation management system (TMS) were set to be paragons of improvement and perfection in 2016. According to Margaret Tedlie , big data is transforming how carriers and shippers operate on a fundamental level.

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How Can Data Improve Supplier Decisions?

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A growing trend across all industries has been the application of big data , with the use of algorithms and the hiring of data scientists becoming commonplace. As businesses collect and store an ever increasing amount of data, the algorithms required to make sense of this data will become even more valuable.

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